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Northwestern University's agreement with Adobe offers the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite for use by eligible faculty and staff.


Northwestern University's agreement with Microsoft offers Microsoft Office software, core client access licenses, and operating system upgrades for University-owned computers


Power Automate, formerly Microsoft Flow, is an online tool within the Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins, used for the creation of automated workflows between apps and services to synchronize files, get notifications, and collect data.


The Support Center provides Service Desk as a Service and catch-and-dispatch services via phone, email, and chat to support the incident and service request processes for Northwestern IT and other partners.


NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.


The SMTP Relay supported by Collaboration Services is used as a hub for sending email notifications from devices on any Northwestern trusted network/subnet device (or software/application).


CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.


Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.


NU Parking helps manage lots and permits for both the Evanston and Chicago parking offices. The system provides permitting and citation services and helps provide gate access information to the Evanston and Chicago parking lots.


NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.


The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.


Mathematica software analyzes data sets, solves complex differential equations, and develops an entire solution for fast, high-precision numeric and symbolic computation.


Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.


The SPSS software suite is a complete statistical toolkit.


EZProxy allows authorized Northwestern users to view from off-campus e-content and electronic database subscriptions offered by the University Libraries.


The Graduate Student Tracking System (GSTS) allows programs to track graduate student progress and view many elements of graduate student activity in one place.


Enable informed decision making related to database software evaluation, configuration and optimization.


Services associated with e-mail, calendaring, and contacts.


RDSS provides secure on-premise data storage for researchers.


Microsoft Teams is a secure, Cloud-based chat and group collaborative workspace that seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft 365 applications, including Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint.


Northwestern provides encryption key escrow for both Mac and PC platforms. This ensures that encryption keys are stored in a central location so that a hard drive can be decrypted in the event that a local user forgets his or her password or if a department needs to restore data from a machine that they manage.


The Deny Unsolicited Inbound Traffic (DUIT) service is an “opt-in” service that gives Northwestern Technology Leaders the ability to block unsolicited off-campus data network traffic to the on-campus subnets they administer. All inbound connections, regardless of application or service port, will be blocked by the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) at the campus network border for subnets that opt-in to the service. This includes both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, where provisioned. See Service Notes.


Your organization may have a ChemDraw/ChemOffice Subscription License, enabling you to have access to the latest version of the market-leading chemical drawing software.